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Chicago examiner sunday price five cents Chicago october 18 1914 c â€¢ * â€¢ sunday vol xv no 16 a m 12 detectives bound for jail the bureau is a thieves trust state's attorney hoyne i'm going to clean out the depart ment beginning at the top he says jones freed on writ second mysterious witness is arrested state's attorney hoyne exploded a bomb under the police organization last night by announcing that twelve policemen in the detective bureau were so deeply involved in dealings with criminals that they might be con sidered on their way to the penitentiary and that many others will be involved as the investigation continues the detective bureau has refined every known method of capitalizing crime he said the higher up you go the rottener the bureau is and i am going to get every one you know very well who is aimed at in that statement lam going to indict and convict or prefer charges against and drive out of the department enough bureau detectives to . make the place look lonesome the state's attorney was furious because of the release earlier in the day of roy l jones cafe owner and one of the bosses of the old levee district jones was set free on a writ of habeas corpus after hoyne had held him a prisoner in the hotel la salle for five days evidence against detectives ready for october grand jury mr hoyne declared the evidence his office and private detectives have been gathering of collusion between the police and criminals would be ready for presentation to either the october grand jury now in session or the novem ber body which will be sworn in november 2 the investi gation has been going on since last november several con fessions already have been obtained it is said private detectives were employed to shadow suspected policemen and graft ring leaders mr hoyne was able to show jones a list of the policemen who have collected graft in the last six months the names of the persons who paid it to them and the sources of the payments five days sweating by hoyne a nightmare jones says attorney charles e erbstein appearing before judge petit obtained the writ of habeas corpus for jones jones told of those five harrowing days and nights as though they were a nightmare but insisted he had not squealed he told of sending a message to his lawyer by wrapping a note around a silver spoon and dropping it out of the hotel window friday night when his keepers relaxed their vigi lance that is all bunk said the state's attorney i know the man who double-crossed me and sent word to jones lawyer he is one of those who is in bad and probably will be walking a lockstep before i get through with him the state's attorney arrested a new witness last night arrested is the word although there was no warrant the man was taken to a hotel and will be guarded day and night to prevent the recurrence of the jones incident this man is one of those who was employed in the ambulating pay off joint a fake handbook which jones helped to operate and for which jones handled the protection money this is the age-old race track betting game in which the victim believes the wire has been tapped bets to cheat some one and is cheated mr hoyne's statement was dictated slowly and delib erately worded he refused to say what he meant by the top of the detective bureau or to change or elaborate any word of it the statement was as follows : roy jones has been the go-between in dealings involving crooked policemen and the smaller swindlers only he was not big enough to reach beyond the bor der the crooked coppers would not allow him to go after the big stuff downtown jones has been operating pay off joints in indiana and michigan as well as in Illinois where he was the of latest war bulletins 259,300 allies prisoners berlin via london oct 17 â€” an official german report gives the number of prisoners of war held in ger many up to october 1 as 259 300 of which 4,850 are of ficers they are divided as follows : french 2,050 officers and 123,000 men russian 2,150 officers and 92,000 men bel gian 470 officers and 30,850 men british 180 officers and 8,600 men germany has taken more than twice as many prisoners as the allied armies the above is passed by the british censor and to itis added while germany does not al always give officially unfavor able news very promptly ex perience has shown that she does not make any false claims or statements therefore these figures are to be believed war debt ten billion paris oct 17 paul le roy beaulieu political economist in his address on the financial aspects of the war estimates the length of the war at seven months as in 1870 he said the war in debtedness of the nations engaged would be . from 9,000,000,000 to 10,000 000,000 the liquidation of the colossal sums according to m beaulieu will absorb the greatest part of the world's savings so that eco nomic progress will be great ly slackened germans mine the scheldt amsterdam oct 17 the germans according to the handelsblad have laid mines in the river scheldt near antwerp whitlock told job is gone london oct 17.â€”persist ent reports in circulation in diplomatic circles here say that german officials have intimated to the united states minister brand whit lock that as belgium is now a conquered country under german rale his diplomatic mission has ended but that the germans would be de lighted to have him remain in brussels as a private citizen liner noordam hits mine 7 are hurt amsterdam oct 17 â€” the hol land-america liner noordam struck a mine between dover and the dutch coast and seven persons aboard the ship were injured the noordam has been held at falmouth after seizure in the english channel by british cruisers and searched for contraband she was proceeding to rotterdam splendidly equipped with every modern device and capable of giving just as good service as a new car â€” the used automobiles advertised in the examiner's want ad and real estate section right now is the very test time to invest in an automobile the money you save by buying in the fall in stead of waiting until spring will more than pay for many an extra ride watch the examiner's want ad columns every day for unusual bargains in used cars b f yoakum urges u s seize roads to end graft income would eliminate all . direct taxation in state and i nation financier asserts ati rock island investigation washington oct 17.â€”gov ernment ownership of rail roads was advocated by b f yoakum one of the ablest railroad men in the united states in his tes timony to-day before the interstate commerce commission investigating the rock island railroad financial crash this came after an accumulation of evidence showing how the rock island had been financially wrecked by the eastern speculators government ownership is the only soiution of the railroad prob lem said mr yoakum you think this whole problem could be selved by the injection of government ownership into the na tional body politic asked ex-gov ernor folk chief counsel of the com mission i do replied the witness at this particular time the government might not be prepared to take up the matter i realize it might involve more money than the government might care to spend how it could be done well then how could it be under taken by the receivers of this company conveying to the government one half of their entire interests and this without charge to the government i think that in this way the government if it got one-half the profits of all the railroads would be enabled to abolish direct taxes in all forms in the states and territories and have enough to run the national gov ernment as well would abolish graft i am sure that a lot of graft would be abolished as well anything else it would tend to prevent overcap italization of railroads in that way it would be a profitable thing would it put an end to such affairs as have brought the rock island railroad to the attention of the gov ernment and demanded an investiga tion i should say it would end these wildcat schemes there have been many such schemes every railroad system in the country has been indulging in them and will continue to do so until the government takes charge put one over on harriman mr folk in questioning mr yoa i kum brought out the fact that mr j yoakum put one over on the late i e h harriman in the purchase of i the Chicago & alton the rock is | land got the Chicago & alton when i harriman was abroad yoakum i smiled when he recalled the incident additional details of the share-jug gling performed by the wreckers of the rock island which cost the ! stockholders of the two rock island i holding companies that went to the i wall at least 100,000,000 were dis closed as the day's hearing pro i ceeded is there no hope whatever for those who have invested their money in the two nolding companies asked commissioner clements of m j wal lace president of the central tru3t company i don't believe there is a hope re plied the witness do you think the credit of rail roads can be permanent when such things pro on asked the commission er but the witness hedged twu more dummies were discov ered george g mcmurtry of new york a director of the rock island operating company and of the new jersey holding company and george official statements french paris oct 17 â€” the following official statement was issued to night i [ i imhe action at . o the front is jsr gfc r * confined to '&\ sh sfj arl ' ' ' ep y our rl laÃŸs k progress on the sjl is jst left wing contin tp ues â€” j the british french coat troops have taken of arms possession of fro melles southwest of lille on the canal from ypres to the ! sea our marine riflemen have re ; pul c ed a german attack ! on the right bank of the lys the allied troops have occupied fleur baix as well as the immediate vi cinity of armentieres in the region of arras and in that of st mihiel we have contin ued to gain ground german london oct 11 â€” german gen eral headquarters in berlin issued the following official announcement to-night according to a reuter dis patch in the french a theater of war j there has been v-^^sstet no important event in the province of u"^^^|fs^r?/ss wal k i russians lÂ£i(gov yesterday were in c^sj active a num c-tyy*^3 ber of prisoners german coat were captured o1 arm *. near schirwindt and some guns were taken the battles near the south of warsaw continue a marconi dispatch from berlin says : it is reported from tokio that a complete revulsion of feeling in fa vor of germany has occurred in china reports of german victo ries are prominently announced by the chinese press and our suc cesses of tsingtau and the achieve ments of the cruiser emden have j been received with rejoicing quakes rock greece houses overthrown many injured at thebes athens feels shocks london oct 17 â€” a dispatch to the exchange telegraph company from athens says that at 8 o'clock this morning and again at noon there were continuous seismic shocks in the grecian provinces of attica boeotia and peleponessus hundreds of cot tages are stated to have been over thrown and numerous persons injured at thebes the dispatch adds that ! the shocks are continuing and have ; been felt in athens kaiser will make hindenburg prince berlin via the hague oct 17 â€” the notable successes gained by gen eral von hindenburg first in east prussia and then in russian poland are to be recognized by the emperor it is the intention to elevate the gen eral to the rank of prince general von hindenburg defeated the rus sians in the battles of allenstein and tannenberg then stiffened the aus trian resistance in galicia and finally led the advance against warsaw he is the popular idol of germany morgan sued for will ofmarthawashington richmond va oct 17 â€” the state of virginia will sue j pierpont mor gan to compel him to restore to the archives of the commonwealth the will of mrs martha washington this was announced to-day by j g pol lard attorney general of virginia who said governor stuart had in structed him to bring the action the document was stolen from the public records of fairfax county while the courthouse was occupied by union soldiers during the civil war british sink four german warships allies lines pierced by teutons english get revenge for naval defeats in fight off holland captain whose ship was blown up by teuton mine avenges that catastrophe and loss of the hawke friday escapes unharmed from attack by quartet of destroyers special cable to the examiner london oct 17 â€” the british navy to-day avenged the . hawke the british cruiser sunk off the coast of scotland by a german submarine's torpedo by sending to the bottom four german torpedo boat destroyers off the coast of holland the terrific execution â€” england's most brilliant naval feat of the war was accomplished by the british light crui ser undaunted fighting with the indomitable courage of a great lion of the sea driven to bay the cruiser was attacked by a fleet of the enemy's destroyers while on patrolling duty according to the official announcement of the press bureau of the admiralty which confirmed the news of the victory only thirty-one members of the crews of the four destroyers are known to survive this number of prisoners was captured by the undaunted the german loss is esti mated at about 230 dead the british casualties were one officer and four men wounded the damage to the destroy ers accompanying the undaunted was slight in winning this signal naval victory captain cecil h fox commander of the undaunted avenged himself for the catastrophe which overtook him in the north sea august 26 when the cruiser amphion then commanded by him was de stroyed by a german mine the undaunted was convoyed by the torpedo boat des troyers lance lenox legion and loyal destroyers center fire on cruiser undaunted the attacking fleet singled out the undaunted and con centrated tifc^.sre upon her thinking first to dispose of the more formidable vessel and then turn their attention to the lighter craft in the battle which followed four of the attacking des troyers were quickly sent to the bottom by well directed shots from the 6-inch and 4-inch guns of the undaunted the german destroyers were of the class of which at the opening of the war germany had 142 all ranging in speed from 20 to 32.5 knots each carries two 23-pounders or lighter guns and three or four torpedo tubes with the four warships sunk to-day the british navy has to its credit seven torpedo boat destroyers sent to the bottom one austrian and six german cruisers and several converted merchantmen the germans have destroyed one russian and six english cruisers london frightened by rumor ! two cruisers are lost while london was still flushed with the pride of the un daunted's achievement a rumor unconfirmed was widely circulated in london that the big cruisers invincible and terrible had been sunk by german submarines in the north sea the rumor became so persistent that the official press bureau at the request of the admiralty issued an official statement denying the report another british ship was blown up by a german mine in the north sea to-day and nine of the crew lost their lives the steam trawler ajax out of grimsby struck a floating mine and was sunk before all the crew could be taken off milan oct 17 â€” operations against cattaro have begun in earnest guns have been dragged up to the crest of lovchen and a vigorous bombardment has been begun by land and sea according to a telegram from san giovanni di medua thursday evening warships of the allied fleets attacked the outer ring of forts the bombardment continued all night apparently without result austrian torpedo craft which were cruising along the dalmatian coast seeking to carry out a surprise attack on the allied squadron were chased to sea by six french ves sels which cut off one torpedo boat and sank it with all hands j allies sidp germans at dunkirk on new march frontal attack is begun in the effort to reach paris by coast route after successively taking boulogne and havre london oct 17 the chronicle's correspondent in northwestern france philip gibbs says the germans have left but a remnant of their army on the aisne and have retreated with their main force on the right wing to guard their line of communi cation with belgium the allies have swung down to meet them and waterloo was but a minor engagement com pared to the battle now on he says the germans saw a death blow being prepared for them he adds and with swift judgment abandoned nearly all they had gained to retire london oct 17 the germans are delivering their frontal at tack on the allied forces on the franco-belgian border in an at tempt to reach paris by the coast route â€” dunkirk calais boulogne havre the allies have checked the ger man advance outside of dunkirk and are preparing to flood the city if necessary to check the teutons the german advance has been so rapid that a portion of the allied army appears to have been cut off in the vicinity of ypres in belgium according to wireless dispatches from berlin belgium is almost en tirely in the hands of the germans the allies gained five miles on the line further toward the east when they occupied fromelles and fleurbaix on the north bank of the lys eattle only 100 miles from london the battle now being fought is within 100 miles of london and the populace here is in great apprehen sion of aerial attacks which the re assuring articles in the newspapers have not been able to dispel the fighting of the most desper ate character is confined to the triangle described by ypres menin ostend and a point on the seacoast between nieuport and the belgian border meanwhile in alsace the ger mans are said to be gaining ground | according to berlin reports despite ' the heavy forces which the french have been pouring across the vosges a dispatch to the nord deutsche allgemeine zeitung co logne says the french are intrench ! ing themselves near belfort in ex ' pectation of a german attack from | the east the german plan is un i derstood to contemplate an assault on the french capital from the east and west simultaneously after the germans if successful shall have reached havre and started up the valley of the seine germans pierce lines of allies official statements issued this afternoon and to-night in bordeaux give a hint of the terrible nature of the fighting in this theater the afteri.oon communique declared the german line had not been able to ad vance west of the ( line extending saloonkeeper is killed by robber olaf olsen fifty-nine a saloon keep er of Chicago heights was fatally wounded last night when he was shot twice by a robber who entered the saloon olsen was taken to the st james hospital where he died i short time later the assassin escaped continued on 6th page 2d column continued on 2d pgjge 2d column continued on bth page sth column w mnmummmu mmm m m y m f mwmmfsjwi i^^^^h aa

Chicago examiner sunday price five cents Chicago october 18 1914 c â€¢ * â€¢ sunday vol xv no 16 a m 12 detectives bound for jail the bureau is a thieves trust state's attorney hoyne i'm going to clean out the depart ment beginning at the top he says jones freed on writ second mysterious witness is arrested state's attorney hoyne exploded a bomb under the police organization last night by announcing that twelve policemen in the detective bureau were so deeply involved in dealings with criminals that they might be con sidered on their way to the penitentiary and that many others will be involved as the investigation continues the detective bureau has refined every known method of capitalizing crime he said the higher up you go the rottener the bureau is and i am going to get every one you know very well who is aimed at in that statement lam going to indict and convict or prefer charges against and drive out of the department enough bureau detectives to . make the place look lonesome the state's attorney was furious because of the release earlier in the day of roy l jones cafe owner and one of the bosses of the old levee district jones was set free on a writ of habeas corpus after hoyne had held him a prisoner in the hotel la salle for five days evidence against detectives ready for october grand jury mr hoyne declared the evidence his office and private detectives have been gathering of collusion between the police and criminals would be ready for presentation to either the october grand jury now in session or the novem ber body which will be sworn in november 2 the investi gation has been going on since last november several con fessions already have been obtained it is said private detectives were employed to shadow suspected policemen and graft ring leaders mr hoyne was able to show jones a list of the policemen who have collected graft in the last six months the names of the persons who paid it to them and the sources of the payments five days sweating by hoyne a nightmare jones says attorney charles e erbstein appearing before judge petit obtained the writ of habeas corpus for jones jones told of those five harrowing days and nights as though they were a nightmare but insisted he had not squealed he told of sending a message to his lawyer by wrapping a note around a silver spoon and dropping it out of the hotel window friday night when his keepers relaxed their vigi lance that is all bunk said the state's attorney i know the man who double-crossed me and sent word to jones lawyer he is one of those who is in bad and probably will be walking a lockstep before i get through with him the state's attorney arrested a new witness last night arrested is the word although there was no warrant the man was taken to a hotel and will be guarded day and night to prevent the recurrence of the jones incident this man is one of those who was employed in the ambulating pay off joint a fake handbook which jones helped to operate and for which jones handled the protection money this is the age-old race track betting game in which the victim believes the wire has been tapped bets to cheat some one and is cheated mr hoyne's statement was dictated slowly and delib erately worded he refused to say what he meant by the top of the detective bureau or to change or elaborate any word of it the statement was as follows : roy jones has been the go-between in dealings involving crooked policemen and the smaller swindlers only he was not big enough to reach beyond the bor der the crooked coppers would not allow him to go after the big stuff downtown jones has been operating pay off joints in indiana and michigan as well as in Illinois where he was the of latest war bulletins 259,300 allies prisoners berlin via london oct 17 â€” an official german report gives the number of prisoners of war held in ger many up to october 1 as 259 300 of which 4,850 are of ficers they are divided as follows : french 2,050 officers and 123,000 men russian 2,150 officers and 92,000 men bel gian 470 officers and 30,850 men british 180 officers and 8,600 men germany has taken more than twice as many prisoners as the allied armies the above is passed by the british censor and to itis added while germany does not al always give officially unfavor able news very promptly ex perience has shown that she does not make any false claims or statements therefore these figures are to be believed war debt ten billion paris oct 17 paul le roy beaulieu political economist in his address on the financial aspects of the war estimates the length of the war at seven months as in 1870 he said the war in debtedness of the nations engaged would be . from 9,000,000,000 to 10,000 000,000 the liquidation of the colossal sums according to m beaulieu will absorb the greatest part of the world's savings so that eco nomic progress will be great ly slackened germans mine the scheldt amsterdam oct 17 the germans according to the handelsblad have laid mines in the river scheldt near antwerp whitlock told job is gone london oct 17.â€”persist ent reports in circulation in diplomatic circles here say that german officials have intimated to the united states minister brand whit lock that as belgium is now a conquered country under german rale his diplomatic mission has ended but that the germans would be de lighted to have him remain in brussels as a private citizen liner noordam hits mine 7 are hurt amsterdam oct 17 â€” the hol land-america liner noordam struck a mine between dover and the dutch coast and seven persons aboard the ship were injured the noordam has been held at falmouth after seizure in the english channel by british cruisers and searched for contraband she was proceeding to rotterdam splendidly equipped with every modern device and capable of giving just as good service as a new car â€” the used automobiles advertised in the examiner's want ad and real estate section right now is the very test time to invest in an automobile the money you save by buying in the fall in stead of waiting until spring will more than pay for many an extra ride watch the examiner's want ad columns every day for unusual bargains in used cars b f yoakum urges u s seize roads to end graft income would eliminate all . direct taxation in state and i nation financier asserts ati rock island investigation washington oct 17.â€”gov ernment ownership of rail roads was advocated by b f yoakum one of the ablest railroad men in the united states in his tes timony to-day before the interstate commerce commission investigating the rock island railroad financial crash this came after an accumulation of evidence showing how the rock island had been financially wrecked by the eastern speculators government ownership is the only soiution of the railroad prob lem said mr yoakum you think this whole problem could be selved by the injection of government ownership into the na tional body politic asked ex-gov ernor folk chief counsel of the com mission i do replied the witness at this particular time the government might not be prepared to take up the matter i realize it might involve more money than the government might care to spend how it could be done well then how could it be under taken by the receivers of this company conveying to the government one half of their entire interests and this without charge to the government i think that in this way the government if it got one-half the profits of all the railroads would be enabled to abolish direct taxes in all forms in the states and territories and have enough to run the national gov ernment as well would abolish graft i am sure that a lot of graft would be abolished as well anything else it would tend to prevent overcap italization of railroads in that way it would be a profitable thing would it put an end to such affairs as have brought the rock island railroad to the attention of the gov ernment and demanded an investiga tion i should say it would end these wildcat schemes there have been many such schemes every railroad system in the country has been indulging in them and will continue to do so until the government takes charge put one over on harriman mr folk in questioning mr yoa i kum brought out the fact that mr j yoakum put one over on the late i e h harriman in the purchase of i the Chicago & alton the rock is | land got the Chicago & alton when i harriman was abroad yoakum i smiled when he recalled the incident additional details of the share-jug gling performed by the wreckers of the rock island which cost the ! stockholders of the two rock island i holding companies that went to the i wall at least 100,000,000 were dis closed as the day's hearing pro i ceeded is there no hope whatever for those who have invested their money in the two nolding companies asked commissioner clements of m j wal lace president of the central tru3t company i don't believe there is a hope re plied the witness do you think the credit of rail roads can be permanent when such things pro on asked the commission er but the witness hedged twu more dummies were discov ered george g mcmurtry of new york a director of the rock island operating company and of the new jersey holding company and george official statements french paris oct 17 â€” the following official statement was issued to night i [ i imhe action at . o the front is jsr gfc r * confined to '&\ sh sfj arl ' ' ' ep y our rl laÃŸs k progress on the sjl is jst left wing contin tp ues â€” j the british french coat troops have taken of arms possession of fro melles southwest of lille on the canal from ypres to the ! sea our marine riflemen have re ; pul c ed a german attack ! on the right bank of the lys the allied troops have occupied fleur baix as well as the immediate vi cinity of armentieres in the region of arras and in that of st mihiel we have contin ued to gain ground german london oct 11 â€” german gen eral headquarters in berlin issued the following official announcement to-night according to a reuter dis patch in the french a theater of war j there has been v-^^sstet no important event in the province of u"^^^|fs^r?/ss wal k i russians lÂ£i(gov yesterday were in c^sj active a num c-tyy*^3 ber of prisoners german coat were captured o1 arm *. near schirwindt and some guns were taken the battles near the south of warsaw continue a marconi dispatch from berlin says : it is reported from tokio that a complete revulsion of feeling in fa vor of germany has occurred in china reports of german victo ries are prominently announced by the chinese press and our suc cesses of tsingtau and the achieve ments of the cruiser emden have j been received with rejoicing quakes rock greece houses overthrown many injured at thebes athens feels shocks london oct 17 â€” a dispatch to the exchange telegraph company from athens says that at 8 o'clock this morning and again at noon there were continuous seismic shocks in the grecian provinces of attica boeotia and peleponessus hundreds of cot tages are stated to have been over thrown and numerous persons injured at thebes the dispatch adds that ! the shocks are continuing and have ; been felt in athens kaiser will make hindenburg prince berlin via the hague oct 17 â€” the notable successes gained by gen eral von hindenburg first in east prussia and then in russian poland are to be recognized by the emperor it is the intention to elevate the gen eral to the rank of prince general von hindenburg defeated the rus sians in the battles of allenstein and tannenberg then stiffened the aus trian resistance in galicia and finally led the advance against warsaw he is the popular idol of germany morgan sued for will ofmarthawashington richmond va oct 17 â€” the state of virginia will sue j pierpont mor gan to compel him to restore to the archives of the commonwealth the will of mrs martha washington this was announced to-day by j g pol lard attorney general of virginia who said governor stuart had in structed him to bring the action the document was stolen from the public records of fairfax county while the courthouse was occupied by union soldiers during the civil war british sink four german warships allies lines pierced by teutons english get revenge for naval defeats in fight off holland captain whose ship was blown up by teuton mine avenges that catastrophe and loss of the hawke friday escapes unharmed from attack by quartet of destroyers special cable to the examiner london oct 17 â€” the british navy to-day avenged the . hawke the british cruiser sunk off the coast of scotland by a german submarine's torpedo by sending to the bottom four german torpedo boat destroyers off the coast of holland the terrific execution â€” england's most brilliant naval feat of the war was accomplished by the british light crui ser undaunted fighting with the indomitable courage of a great lion of the sea driven to bay the cruiser was attacked by a fleet of the enemy's destroyers while on patrolling duty according to the official announcement of the press bureau of the admiralty which confirmed the news of the victory only thirty-one members of the crews of the four destroyers are known to survive this number of prisoners was captured by the undaunted the german loss is esti mated at about 230 dead the british casualties were one officer and four men wounded the damage to the destroy ers accompanying the undaunted was slight in winning this signal naval victory captain cecil h fox commander of the undaunted avenged himself for the catastrophe which overtook him in the north sea august 26 when the cruiser amphion then commanded by him was de stroyed by a german mine the undaunted was convoyed by the torpedo boat des troyers lance lenox legion and loyal destroyers center fire on cruiser undaunted the attacking fleet singled out the undaunted and con centrated tifc^.sre upon her thinking first to dispose of the more formidable vessel and then turn their attention to the lighter craft in the battle which followed four of the attacking des troyers were quickly sent to the bottom by well directed shots from the 6-inch and 4-inch guns of the undaunted the german destroyers were of the class of which at the opening of the war germany had 142 all ranging in speed from 20 to 32.5 knots each carries two 23-pounders or lighter guns and three or four torpedo tubes with the four warships sunk to-day the british navy has to its credit seven torpedo boat destroyers sent to the bottom one austrian and six german cruisers and several converted merchantmen the germans have destroyed one russian and six english cruisers london frightened by rumor ! two cruisers are lost while london was still flushed with the pride of the un daunted's achievement a rumor unconfirmed was widely circulated in london that the big cruisers invincible and terrible had been sunk by german submarines in the north sea the rumor became so persistent that the official press bureau at the request of the admiralty issued an official statement denying the report another british ship was blown up by a german mine in the north sea to-day and nine of the crew lost their lives the steam trawler ajax out of grimsby struck a floating mine and was sunk before all the crew could be taken off milan oct 17 â€” operations against cattaro have begun in earnest guns have been dragged up to the crest of lovchen and a vigorous bombardment has been begun by land and sea according to a telegram from san giovanni di medua thursday evening warships of the allied fleets attacked the outer ring of forts the bombardment continued all night apparently without result austrian torpedo craft which were cruising along the dalmatian coast seeking to carry out a surprise attack on the allied squadron were chased to sea by six french ves sels which cut off one torpedo boat and sank it with all hands j allies sidp germans at dunkirk on new march frontal attack is begun in the effort to reach paris by coast route after successively taking boulogne and havre london oct 17 the chronicle's correspondent in northwestern france philip gibbs says the germans have left but a remnant of their army on the aisne and have retreated with their main force on the right wing to guard their line of communi cation with belgium the allies have swung down to meet them and waterloo was but a minor engagement com pared to the battle now on he says the germans saw a death blow being prepared for them he adds and with swift judgment abandoned nearly all they had gained to retire london oct 17 the germans are delivering their frontal at tack on the allied forces on the franco-belgian border in an at tempt to reach paris by the coast route â€” dunkirk calais boulogne havre the allies have checked the ger man advance outside of dunkirk and are preparing to flood the city if necessary to check the teutons the german advance has been so rapid that a portion of the allied army appears to have been cut off in the vicinity of ypres in belgium according to wireless dispatches from berlin belgium is almost en tirely in the hands of the germans the allies gained five miles on the line further toward the east when they occupied fromelles and fleurbaix on the north bank of the lys eattle only 100 miles from london the battle now being fought is within 100 miles of london and the populace here is in great apprehen sion of aerial attacks which the re assuring articles in the newspapers have not been able to dispel the fighting of the most desper ate character is confined to the triangle described by ypres menin ostend and a point on the seacoast between nieuport and the belgian border meanwhile in alsace the ger mans are said to be gaining ground | according to berlin reports despite ' the heavy forces which the french have been pouring across the vosges a dispatch to the nord deutsche allgemeine zeitung co logne says the french are intrench ! ing themselves near belfort in ex ' pectation of a german attack from | the east the german plan is un i derstood to contemplate an assault on the french capital from the east and west simultaneously after the germans if successful shall have reached havre and started up the valley of the seine germans pierce lines of allies official statements issued this afternoon and to-night in bordeaux give a hint of the terrible nature of the fighting in this theater the afteri.oon communique declared the german line had not been able to ad vance west of the ( line extending saloonkeeper is killed by robber olaf olsen fifty-nine a saloon keep er of Chicago heights was fatally wounded last night when he was shot twice by a robber who entered the saloon olsen was taken to the st james hospital where he died i short time later the assassin escaped continued on 6th page 2d column continued on 2d pgjge 2d column continued on bth page sth column w mnmummmu mmm m m y m f mwmmfsjwi i^^^^h aa